Quotes from Martha Stewart

You should feel good about making your home nicer for your family and your friends. You should feel great about cooking a good dinner and making a dress for a granddaughter, creating a beautiful birthday party. It's all part of life.

I'm a maniacal perfectionist.

I think that the lady who is waiting on me at the local diner, who has kids in school and the mouths to feed, I think she probably has as nice a life as I have. And she only wants to improve her life, her lifestyle.

I use the same products on my body as I use on my face. I don't think there's really any difference between the two, so the more moisturizers and serums you use, the better off you are.

I adore summer entertaining. For a dinner party at the farm, I might prepare homemade fettuccine with porcini mushrooms, soft-shell crabs, spinach from the garden, and lemon tarts with fraises des bois for dessert.

There are two kinds of people... There are the dreamers who go and buy, and there are the doers who go and make. And I've always recognized that. So the dreamers are what support our company because they will buy the product that they could make if they wanted to, had time to, or were so inclined to.

When I was a model - and I was all during high school and college - you always wanted to be on the cover of a magazine. That's how your success was judged. The more cover, the better.

I was a very curious person because of my parents. They encouraged me to be as curious about as many things as I wanted.

I believe in a man and a woman being equal. I really believe that we can do anything we set our minds to.

Life is too complicated not to be orderly.

I find that when you have a real interest in life and a curious life, that sleep is not the most important thing.

As with all my new pets, I gently bit each kitten on the face. This is how I let my animals know that I am now their mother.

The first book really was kind of an entertaining textbook for the homemaker. I couldn't find a good book about entertaining in 1982, and neither could my friend, so I decided to write it.

I was a very good cook, and I knew I could build a business.

I invented 'It's a good thing' before you were even born.

I'm not a sponge exactly, but I find that something I look at is a great opportunity for ideas.

All I really want is a three-room house. The home I have designed at my new farm in Bedford, New York, is a three-room house: bedroom on top, living room in the middle, and kitchen on the ground.

Larousse has a place of honor on every cookbook shelf in America.

A lot of TV people buy more than one of an item, in case they spot or stain it, but I don't like buying duplicates - it's wasteful.

I record my radio show, and my staff makes me a nice lunch in the kitchen, usually fish - whatever's freshest and line-caught - and a salad. I drink water and herbal tea, a blend of catnip, elderberry, and horehound.

I have cotton or flannel sheets, depending on the weather. They have to be ironed, and I get my bed changed nearly every day.

Bloggers create kind of a popularity. But they are not the experts, and we have to understand that.

Doing projects really gives people self-confidence. Nothing is better than taking the pie out of the oven. What it does for you personally, and for your family's idea of you, is something you can't buy.

Every entrepreneur talks about the passion you have for your work, and I think that's what's missing with a lot of women in business.